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Hubble found Luke

So there's been a slight hubbub among science nerds about this strange X-shaped object captured by the Hubble telescope.

Moving at 11,000 mph, this odd pattern doesn't fit the normal patterns for debris. Some scientists at NASA have speculated that they're dealing with a collision between two asteroids. Personally, I think they just discovered the location of the hidden Rebel base.

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For those paying close attention during Revenge of the Fallen, the Nemesis was the massive starship moored* on one of Saturn's moons that Megatron instantly headed for the instant he was resurrected, where Starscream was cultivating an army of protoforms (embryonic Transformers) in stasis pods for the Fallen. Many of these protoforms, forsaking disguise for extra firepower, dropped in to fight off the military and Autobots during the battle near the Pyramids.

(*A running joke in the 25+ years of the Transformers franchise is that the robots are often skilled at takeoff, but can never land worth a damn. They just never really worked at it. Plus, they tend to shoot each other down a lot.)

To avenge all of the atrocities and infringements of the rights of chickens and other fowls, the cool Super Fowl is materializing from ice crystals in space with his right foot now showing. It will soon be Avengement Day, so Planet Earth and mankind will soon suffer another ice age. Our only salvation will be to eat more beef and fish. Let those fowl critters alone.

That's a common misconception. Seriously, ROTF was made almost purely for TF fans... if you know Transformers, nearly everything in the movie makes total sense. Excepting the stuff with the family and the humans, and the mom stoned on pot brownies at the college. That stuff is there because of the older critics who whine that they can't follow anything going on when the robots are on screen.

Really, I possess no special powers of perception that allow me to understand and love Revenge of the Fallen. I just totally "got" what they were doing, beginning to end. I can even explain "space bridges". People who hated the movie acted like the whole "space bridge" thing was Michael Bay and company talking out of their butts... it's actually a concept that goes back to the early days of the 80s Transformers cartoon.

And man was it gratifying to see the Fallen, a relatively new character who first bowed in 2003, get his due as an awesome cinema bogeyman. I'm gonna stop now... I could go on about the Fallen for hours. And about how Optimus Prime ripped his face off and crushed his spark core with his bare hand. It was like the coolest Mortal Kombat fatality ever. Okay... I'm stopping now.

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